HOLLOW

Book Description

Hollow is a high-concept story that explores the idea that the north pole may be more than it appears. It’s 1964 and U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin have just been torpedoed. President Lyndon Johnson retaliates by bombing North Vietnam, setting off protests across the nation’s campuses. Ellen Sturgeon, a Boston Globe reporter, is assigned to cover the sit-ins, and stumbles onto the story of a man, Erik Nansen, who had spent fifty years in jail for killing his father. To her this is more interesting because, after Nansen is released, he’s found dead in his motel room of an apparent suicide. Ellen is intrigued by the fact that, at his arrest, Nansen insisted that he and his father spent two years in the center of the earth with an advanced civilization.

Nansen claimed that, on their return, his father died when a glacier split. Ellen begins investigating the amazing story, but her efforts only lead her and her colleague, Ted Raymond, and Dr. Harriet Ungar, to more questions, and grave danger. Nansen had given Ungar maps to reach the interior of the earth, and he and Harriet had planned to go there. Nansen knew that governments were after information regarding the secret civilization, and especially the maps that would lead them there. Ellen, Ted, and Harriet become a target of the government, which will do anything to get the maps. Following the deaths of their loved ones, there is only one place to hide, the interior of the earth—but first they must find it, if it truly exists.

BOOKLAND

Book Description

Bookland is a novel that addresses an entitled girl’s resistance to reading. When her beloved rich uncle, who is a literature professor dies, he leaves her his estate. However, there is a caveat in the Will that she needs to “experience” ten of her uncle’s favorite adventure novels. Her uncle’s friend is a wizard who will take her to the dimension Bookland where she can “experience” each book. Failure to experience all ten books will revoke her inheritance.
Some people tell her that her uncle died of AIDS and that he was gay. A fact that she is resistant to believe as she learns more about this wizard. The girl’s mother, who has been in Europe for years after her husband died flitting from one man to another of the rich and famous, returns home announcing she sold their house. Her plans to return to Italy will leave her daughter with nothing but the inheritance which she can only get by going through the trial of the books, an agonizing experience that changes her life.

AMA A CHILD OF THIRTEEN

Book Description

Ama – A Child of Thirteen chronicles the adventures of a 12-year-old girl who’s about to be transformed. Born during an eclipse of the third full moon, Ama has more latent special powers than any other living entity. Ama is about to turn thirteen when her powers will peak and make her invincible, which has made her a target and put her in grave danger. An evil wizard and witch are plotting to steal her powers. Ama will need every bit of courage, wisdom, and wits within her—along with the help of a giant, a good wizard, and a realm of unicorns—to save herself, and everyone around her.powers. Ama will need every bit of courage, wisdom, and wits within her—along with the help of a giant, a good wizard, and a realm of unicorns—to save herself, and everyone around her.

OBSIDIAN

Book Description

My book “Obsidian” is loosely based on a true story of a young Indian woman and the racism she and others encountered during the time of the Gold Rush when tribes were annihilated and their villages burnt to the ground. Children were stolen and taken to mission schools to “remove the Indian in them.” I first had learned of this by my adopted father who had been sent to one of these schools. The story takes place in the Sierra Nevada Mountains where I have spent many rockhounding trips and vacations.

The book, “Obsidian” follows a teenage Native girl, Alini, who is raped and her parents killed by soldiers in a raid on a Miwok village. The soldiers sell her to a Mission School from which she escapes. Having been taken far from her home, she seeks help from people she encounters in the mountains facing danger at every turn trying to avoid being found by the soldiers.